Background migration: the Irish (and other strangers) in mid-Victorian Hertfordshire.

A Comparative Perspective on Changing Household and Family Structure in Mid-victorian Hertfordshire

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Wilde’s worlds: Sir William Wilde in Victorian Ireland

INTRODUCTION Other contributors to this collection have evoked the disparate worlds inhabited by Sir William Wilde. AIMS To provide an overall assessment of his career. MATERIALS AND METHODS Looking at the historical conditions that made possible such a career spanning such disparate worlds. Deploying methodologies developed by historians of medicine and sociologists of science, the article...

Migration and nursing in Ireland: An internationalist history

Recent research and policy interest has focused on the changing composition of the nursing workforce in the Republic of Ireland, which has seen an increase in the number and importance of overseas-trained nurses. This is the most recent episode of the importance of migration in the history of nursing in Ireland which stretches back to the emergence of nursing in Ireland in the early 19 century....

‘A Burden on the County’: Madness, Institutions of Confinement and the Irish Patient in Victorian Lancashire

This article explores the responses of the Poor Law authorities, asylum superintendents and Lunacy Commissioners to the huge influx of Irish patients into the Lancashire public asylum system, a system facing intense pressure in terms of numbers and costs, in the latter half of the nineteenth century. In particular, it examines the ways in which patients were passed, bartered and exchanged betwe...

The Place of the rubaiyat in victorian Poetry